The aim of this article is twofold. First, it analyses how Anaxilaus exploited the performative contexts and communicative strategies that, in the first decades of the fifth century, were available to the tyrants of Magna Graecia and Sicily who wished to ensure the fame of their exploits and legitimise their political actions. Secondly, it sets out the stages that led to the substantial erasure of the memory of Anaxilaus on a historiographical level. In this respect, a decisive role seems to have been played by Ephorus, who, in his Histories, overshadowed the antagonistic relationship with the Deinomenids that Anaxilaus had in Sicily until the battle of Himera.

La memoria del tiranno: Anassilao di Reggio tra protagonismo personale e oblio letterario

bianchi edoardo
2022-01-01

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The aim of this article is twofold. First, it analyses how Anaxilaus exploited the performative contexts and communicative strategies that, in the first decades of the fifth century, were available to the tyrants of Magna Graecia and Sicily who wished to ensure the fame of their exploits and legitimise their political actions. Secondly, it sets out the stages that led to the substantial erasure of the memory of Anaxilaus on a historiographical level. In this respect, a decisive role seems to have been played by Ephorus, who, in his Histories, overshadowed the antagonistic relationship with the Deinomenids that Anaxilaus had in Sicily until the battle of Himera.
2022
Anaxilaus, Deinomenids, Greek tyrants, Ephorus
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